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Harvest of Awards for the MSc at Aix-Marseille Université (CIVIS)

Our MSc Students Ariadni DAMANAKI (Prof. Dimitrios Boumpas Lab - BRFAA), Athanasios EMMANOUILIDIS (Dr. Themis Alissafi Lab - BRFAA), Lampros KARKANIS (Dr. Panagiotis Verginis Lab - BRFAA), Marianthi MAROULI (Dr. Christoforos Nikolaou Lab - BSRC "Alexander Fleming"), Pavlina MICHA (Dr. Apostolos Klinakis Lab - BRFAA) and Artemis MONOGYIOU (Dr. Vassiliki Koliaraki Lab - BSRC "Alexander Fleming") have been selected among the top European students to attend the Summer School & Blended Intensive Program (BIP) CIVIS course "Immuno-oncology in the spatial omics era" co-organized by our International MSc Molecular Biomedicine programme and the Aix-Marseille Université (amU) - Institut Cancer et Immunologie (ICI) between 7-11 July 2025.


All of them were also awarded an international scholarship funded through the CIVIS fund and provided to outstanding postgraduate students to attend the international CIVIS program. 

The Greek Delegation in Marseille, France. From left to right: Pavlina MICHA, Marianthi MAROULI, Artemis MONOGYIOU, Dr. Jean Y. GOUZI, Ariadni DAMANAKI, Lampros KARKANIS and Athanasios EMMANOUILIDIS.
The Greek Delegation in Marseille, France. From left to right: Pavlina MICHA, Marianthi MAROULI, Artemis MONOGYIOU, Dr. Jean Y. GOUZI, Ariadni DAMANAKI, Lampros KARKANIS and Athanasios EMMANOUILIDIS.



















📌A Harvest of Awards for the MSc:

  • Artemis MONOGIOY was awarded there the 1st Prize of the Poster presentations

  • Ariadni DAMANAKI was awarded the 1st Prize of the "Spatial Omics Challenge", a team-competition for which students presented their own scientific project elaborated during the whole week of the Summer School. The winning team was headed and mentored by Dr. Aikaterini NANOU from the BSRC "Alexander Fleming", Greece.

Both competitions were evaluated by an international committee of renowned researchers, with the participation of 40 international students. Warmest congratulations to all! 🌟

Artemis MONOGYIOU (3rd from the right) with her Award for the Best Poster presentation at the Aix-Marseille Université (amU), France
Artemis MONOGYIOU (3rd from the right) with her Award for the Best Poster presentation at the Aix-Marseille Université (amU), France
Artemis MONOGYIOU with her Poster (Dr. Vassiliki KOLIARAKI Lab)
Artemis MONOGYIOU with her Poster (Dr. Vassiliki KOLIARAKI Lab)













Ariadni DAMANAKI (1st from the left) and the Winning Team lead by Dr. Aikaterini NANOU with their Award for the Best Project Design
Ariadni DAMANAKI (1st from the left) and the Winning Team lead by Dr. Aikaterini NANOU with their Award for the Best Project Design


Ariadni DAMANAKI (3rd from the left) and the Winning Team lead by Dr. Aikaterini NANOU during the public presentation of their Project
Ariadni DAMANAKI (3rd from the left) and the Winning Team lead by Dr. Aikaterini NANOU during the public presentation of their Project































📌This CIVIS-BIP is co-organized every 2 years by our International MSc in Molecular Biomedicine (Medical School - National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and BSRC "Alexander Fleming") in collaboration with the Institut Cancer et Immunologie, Aix-Marseille Université (Local organizing committe: Dr. Aurélie Tchoghandjian - President, and Prof. Marie-dominique Franco). A Warm Thank You to all the organizers! 🌟​

This 2025 Summer School: "Immuno-oncology in the spatial omics era" (third edition) entirely in English, is designed for international MSc and PhD students in the fields of life sciences and medicine who are looking to further their knowledge and skills in the field of immuno-oncology research. The program includes tutorials, specialized courses taught by local professors, small-group workshops in local labs for hands-on experiments and data analysis, poster sessions presented by the students, a team-competition in which students design and present their own scientific project, and cutting-edge spatial omics seminars and in-depth research talks offered by Internationally renowned lecturers:


CIVIS is Europe's Civic University Alliance, formed by 11 leading, research-oriented higher education institutions across Europe: Aix-Marseille Université, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Bucharest, Université libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Sapienza Università di Roma, Stockholm University, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, University of Glasgow, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and University of Lausanne. It brings together a community of more than 470,000 students and 58,000 staff members including 35,000 academics and researchers in Europe alone. Including CIVIS’ African members, its community counts more than 720,000 students and 75,000 staff.

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